Legionnaire, by Marko Risović

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Dusko was regular boy, excellent student and intellectual. Few years ago, his urge for adventure, and sense of lack of perspective in developing Serbian society, led him to French Foreign Legion. He spent several years there, serving as professional soldier. When he came back home, he tried to reconnect with society, to tie broken strings and live like normal citizen. His labile personality and fuzzy situation in Serbia, inability to find regular job, and his military history, made it very hard for him.

Serbia had one of the highest rates of brain drain during 90′s. Young people forced by instability, lack of jobs, bad educational system and political turmoil, massively left the country to search for better possibilities. They were doing different jobs abroad, from cooks and support workers to computer experts and engineers. Some of them now want to come back to home country, but they are still confronted with numerous problems. Dusko is an extreme example. His inner struggle is very strong. Every day of his life is full of choices he has to make in order to survive.

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Marko Risović

Marko was attracted to photographic exploration of reality in his early youth. After years of experimenting, he discovered narrative power of photography as a language of socially engaged communication. For six years, he was working as photojournalist in different media outlets in Serbia. Later, he switched his interest to long term projects about various aspects of social reality. World Press Photo organization selected him to participate in Masterclass for young photographers from southeastern Europe in 2010. His work was recognized by respectable organizations. Some of these recognitions are: Press Photo Serbia - Photo of the year 2012, followed by another six Press Photo Serbia prizes in different categories in period 2010 to 2014, Status magazine award for best photography in Serbian media in 2010, Balkan Photo Fest main award in 2016, Beta photo agency Grand Prix for his work about refugees in 2016... Marko's work was published in different regional and international magazines and web editions, and presented in over fifty exhibitions. He is regular contributor to National Geographic Serbia magazine and member of ULUPUDS (Association of Serbian applied artists and designers) since 2012.